Anti-Trump legal crusade in full swing

The entire media-political-government-power complex camped along the Potomac River in this fetid August heat officially lost its collective mind this week.

In an orgy of political drama playing out in courtrooms up and down the Acela corridor, President Trump’s lawyer and his one-time campaign manager stand convicted of various crimes. In this fever worse than Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, President Trump — therefore — has been officially declared guilty by association!

Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager for six minutes during the summer of 2016, was found guilty of a host of crimes dating back more than a decade relating to his various business ventures, none of which has anything to do with President Trump.

What is interesting about the case against Mr. Manafort is that prosecutors had declined to pursue some of the charges way back when. But that was BEFORE Mr. Manafort betrayed the political establishment by working for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.

Once he committed that cardinal sin, all bets were off.

That is why so many people see this whole crusade as a dangerous and dishonest political prosecution. It is not Paul Manafort that people care about. It is the idea that Mr. Manafort got shoved through a political-criminal meat-grinder all because he worked for Donald Trump.

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Where was this prosecutorial zeal when it came to Hillary Clinton and her illegal bathroom email server or all the obvious global pay-to-play shakedowns by the Clinton Foundation?

If people in Washington honestly want to understand the hostility and distrust American voters have for their federal government, they must admit that this stinks to the high heavens.

Then there is former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who has turned on the president like a scalded cur dog.

In case anyone wonders if Mr. Trump has lost his wickedly funny sense of humor, hold your nose and take a peek at Twitter.

“If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” Mr. Trump crowed hours after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of charges relating to his taxi cab business and law practice, including legal work he did directly for Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cohen’s lawyer? Lanny Davis, who became famous representing former President Bill Clinton during his endless saga of scandals.

Political incest, anyone? Pass the barf bag.

Again, this is why nobody trusts politics in America anymore. This is why people voted for Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump might be all these horrible things that people say about him. A loud, brutish, bullying narcissist. But at least he is NOT a Washington politician.

As for the charges against Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer claims Mr. Trump ordered him to pay a porn actress and a Playboy model for their silence. This, Mr. Cohen claims, is a violation of campaign finance. (Yeah, like Michael Cohen knows the first thing about campaign finance laws.)

And then Mr. Trump was not exactly forthcoming about it. Really?

Well, here is a NEWS FLASH: Donald J. Trump did pay a porn actress and a former Playboy model for their silence. And not a single person in all of America ever doubted that is exactly what happened from the first moment they heard about any of it.

And they don’t care! You know why?

Because at least Donald Trump still isn’t a dirty, self-dealing, dishonest Washington politician.

• Contact Charles Hurt at churt@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter @charleshurt.

12 Comments

Charles Hurt, Great commentary! Cohen going to that low life Lanny Hillary Clinton Davis. I have no sympathy for Manafort, with his fifteen thousand dollar suits (reminds me of Hillary, with her fifteen thousand dollar Armani pant suits), but like you stated in the article above, Trump had nothing to do with Manafort. You are also right, in that, Cohen and Manafort were tried in Court, because of their association with Trump, otherwise Cohen and Manafort would still be walking around free. Don’t get me wrong, I have no sympathy for people that knowingly break the law.

It certainly is telling, how liberals are celebrating this conviction of Cohen and Maniford, like its granting them the Keys to impeach trump.. YET NOT ONE will acknowledge the simple fact, THAT MANIFORDS crimes we known about and nothing was done for a few years, TILL HE started working for Trump…

Showing to ME at least, that liberals care not, what crimes someone does. They are ignored. TILL YOU work for or with Trump.

Speaking of collusion with an ENEMY of the United States of America….
There is a WELL PROVEN Conspiracy to undermine and OVERTHROW the LAWFULLY ELECTED Administration through the ILLEGAL USE of the Judicial system AND endless PROPAGANDA BY CO-CONSPIRATORS IN THE MEDIA.

The US Judicial system is not set up, nor is it even given the authority to deal with TREASON by ENEMIES, either foreign or DOMESTIC.

Hillary said the following in reference to her white water scandal.
“Her partisan critics, the first lady has said, are so intoxicated by what they believe is the scent of scandal that they ignore exculpatory evidence and are impossible to satisfy; as soon as one accusation dissolves, they grasp for another line of inquiry that might embarrass her and President Clinton. Whatever mistakes she might have made, she says, were the result of naivete. If she appeared secretive or defensive, she says, it was because she overestimated the “zone of privacy” that is allowed public figures. And exacerbating her troubles, she has concluded, has been a Washington culture that “thrives on rumor, gossip and innuendo.””

Translation: Nothing is EVER Hillary’s fault. EVER. She has NEVER in her miserable LIFE accepted responsibility for ANYTHING she has done, no matter HOW heinous. It wasn’t even HER fault that she was such a LOUSY candidate for President that she couldn’t even win an election that was RIGGED in her favor! No, it was the RUSSIANS to blame for that–and after she and Obama floated THAT excuse–about 5 minutes after returns made it obvious that she was GOING to lose–they decided to graft Pres. Trump into the story so they could accuse HIM of “colluding” with the Russians. I watched this unfolding on election night, and this is EXACTLY what happened!

Moneys paid by attorney Cohen to “influence a campaign”?
What a crock of bull shyte!
Those moneys were clearly used by Cohen to pay off extortionists!

The reason such an irrational crock of bull feces campaign influence accusation even exists is that the DOJ/FBI etc had implemented a “The Best Defense is a Good Offense” defense strategy in order to head off their own and the Hillary and Obama teams from being investigated for their own actual criminal campaign activities, by keeping Trump and his team on the back of their heels so busy defending themselves against those ridiculous charges to mount a special counsel investigation into the prior administration’s pre-inauguration and hold over deep state staffing’s corrupt campaign activities.

Last time I checked, andyjacksonian, paying money to a blackmailer was NOT a crime–but EXTORTION certainly IS! And these “show trials” that Mueller is in the process of conducting against anybody who had so much as a NODDING ACQUAINTANCE with Pres. Trump in the past 20 YEARS–are EERILY reminiscent of the “show trials” conducted by the old Soviet Union to paste some facade of JUSTICE over their railroading of innocent people into slave labor camps or execution. The ONLY reason Manafort was indicted in the FIRST PLACE was Mueller trying to COERCE him into “rolling over” and giving him something he could use to “get” Pres. Trump. And when he wouldn’t do that, they TRIED him on the BS charges out of SPITE, using a jury PACKED with Democrat SHEEP, just to make sure the verdict in the “show trial” would go their way. The ONLY reason they did not get “guilty” verdicts on ALL charges was that ONE NON-Commucrat managed to sneak onto their RIGGED jury!

They are attempting to “convict” Pres. Trump of being guilty by ASSOCIATION with these BOGUS “show trials.”

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4:51 pm August 23, 2018 at 4:51 pm

ANd so is bribery.. BUT we see how many dems do it, and keep getting away with it?

Its getting to the point, that thread/article we had a few months ago, about how close are we to a 2nd civil war, is sounding MORE AND MORE like the answer is;
“within a few years at most”..

Jeff Sessions just said he “won’t allow (himself) to be blackmailed”? What an incredibly stupid and arrogant statement!

The phony ******* is cowardly allowing, overseeing actually, his Deputy Rosenstein and the Special Counsel, Mueller and their crazed loons to criminally blackmail (i.e.- extort, they being attorneys, “half-truthingly” call it “flipping”) criminals like Cohen into lying (they being attorneys, “half-truthingly” call it “composing”) about events in order to cut deals reducing their own criminal charges and consequential prison sentences to benefit themselves and the prosecutors at the expense of a duly elected President of the United States, who incidentally is doing a great job on behalf of American citizens.

That is EXACTLY what Mueller and his witch hunt COUP BY LAWYER crew are attempting to do–make Pres. Trump GUILTY of something by association, using these Soviet-style SHOW TRIALS with their Dem-packed JURIES to make SOMETHING out of the NOTHING they have turned up in their multi-million dollar BOONDOGGLE of an “investigation!” Not surprising they’ve got nothing, when they had NO evidence, much less any PROOF of any wrongdoing by Pres. Trump BEFORE they started this USELESS, money-wasting exercise in SEDITION called the “Mueller investigation!”

Because we have a useless, weak-kneed COWARD for A/G who is hiding under his desk whispering “I’m recused!” while allowing ROSENSTEIN–one of those who has a BLATANT conflict of interest and, indeed, a VESTED interest in hiding his OWN criminal involvement in “Russian collusion” and other CRIMINAL activities by Clinton and Obama–run the DOJ and put together the team of ALL-Hillary campaign donors/ALL THE TIME “Mueller” investigation band of WITCH HUNTERS.

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